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Imagine if a top sportsman asked for the television cameras to be switched off, for the stadium to be emptied, for the journalists to go home and for the media scrutiny of his performance to end. He didn’t want to retire, not at all, just to keep all the goodies while avoiding the accountability that goes with life in the major leagues. He would instantly be laughed out of the game. We expect more from our sportsmen than the desire to hide in the shadows.

We should demand more of sport’s administrators, too. Mohamed Bin Hammam, a member of the